Norsk Concert Band Originals

Brass Wings was written in 1998 as a commission for the Women Home Guard Band, and was first performed at the Swedish Army Tatto in Stockholm under the baton of Harriet Jönsson. The piece revised in 2...

Rukan Krukan has its origins from the collaboration between The Norwegian Armed Forces Band -Western Norway, legendary Hardanger fiddle player Knut Buen and myself which in 1999 resulted in the album...

Russian, orchestral music at it's best arranged for Concert Band. The arrangement challenge the whole band, espescially the brass section. The ballet 'The Bolt' was composed in 1930 -1931. The title o...

The opening theme, symbolising a sunrise, is repeated throughout the work, giving the promise of hope for a new day. The musical and conceptual idea for this work is taken from Revelation 22, 5: 'And...

Das Charakterstück 'The Old Mill on the Brook' (''Die alte Mühle am Bach') wurde 1962 für einen Wettbewerb der Norwegian Band Federation komponiert, wo es den zweiten Platz belegte. Seit diesem Wettbe...

The concept of Walkabout comes originally from the Australian aborigines. A Walkabout is a journey where the goal is of less importance (even though you always end up where you started). It is the jou...

'Night' ist ein ruhiges und langsames Konzertstück, geradezu wie ein altertümlicher Gesang.

Maasai Masala is a virtuoso band piece based on "Ol Doinyo Lengai", a duet for vibraphone and marimba. The music draws inspiration from the rhythms and tonalities from both African and Indian music an...

COBALT was commisioned by Modum Janitsjar as own choice piece for the Norwegian championship (third section) 2009. The Royal Cobalt Works of Modum were established in 1773 to extract cobalt ore from t...

Variations on a folktune from Valdres was commisioned by The Norwegian Military Music for the 100th anniversary of the dissolution of the union with Sweden in 2005. The work includes a prologue, eight...

This piece was commissioned by Borge Brass Band with support from Borge Sparebank in 1997. They suggested some folk tunes from Lofoten for the composer, from which he chose two of them. The two folk s...

Life Celebration is a musical tribute to life itself and is inspired by the cycle of life - from birth, through growth, into fall, resurrection and Finale. The piece was commissioned by 'Byåsen Musikk...

TOCATTA e CORALE was commissioned by Dragefjellets Musikkorps, from Bergen, Norway, for their 100th anniversary.

We associate a title like this with Norwegian national romantic music like the music of Edvard Grieg. In this piece, the melody used 'sag du nokke til kjerringa mi', a traditional melody Grieg used in...

Dag Wirén (1905-1986) got his breakthrough as a composer in 1937 with Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 11 - his most played and popular piece. He mainly wrote instrumental music including five symph...

Fest was commissioned by Hardanger Musikkfest and first performed by Ullensvang Skulemusikklag in May 2002. This little overture was the first piece in a series of pieces for schoolband.

Be Thou My Vision' is the eldest religious song from Irland used in Norway. The lyrics was originally written in Old Irish and translated to English in 1905 and versified in 1912. The text from 1912 i...

Hymn of Lofoten is composed by Dag Kajander from Kabelvag in Lofoten, a part of Northern Norway. Kajander is composer, singer and author of books for children. Hymn from Lofoten was written in 1979. T...

'How I love the name of Jesus' is a psalm of David Welander. He wrote it on the train home to Lorenskog in January 1923, and completed it out overnight. It was printed in the magazine 'Krigsropet' sho...

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) composed six sonatas for organ. This collection of sonatas have been very important for the development of the repertoire for solo organ from the year they were...

Elegi was composed by the Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin in 1979 for the trumpet and organ in memory of his sister who died very young. The piece was performed at the funeral in the old Lom Stavkirke,...

The latin title 'Sollicitus' means upset or uneasy is important in terms of the character and form of the work. This work contains several different pcarts, all of them based around a fanfare-like the...

The new theatre- and concert hall Kilden was inaugurated in 2012 in the Norwegian city of Kristiansand. A part of the inauguration was one week of Music Festival who also included amateurs in bands, c...

Trumpetino opens with a one-note 'fanfare', which is being used as a main theme. Different time signatures and rhythmic patterns are supporting this theme. The balance between the soloist and band are...